Posted on July 4, 2008 by Turkish Prawn
Action Girl is not an easy person to buy a gift for.
That’s putting it mildly. She’s fiendishly difficult to buy a gift for, and with her birthday coming up fast, I was in a bit of a panic.
Over the years, I have made progress in working out what she likes for prezzies and what falls [...]
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Posted on June 9, 2008 by Turkish Prawn
There is a man who lives just a few streets over from me who is an arborist. He’s a quiet man, mostly of Native American lineage and mostly of the stoic variety. I had lived in the area for several years before he even started to acknowledge me, though we pass cross paths at least [...]
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Posted on May 27, 2008 by Turkish Prawn
So today was the first big day for this new dad of two. For the first time, I was the sole care giver for the kiddos while Action Girl went back to her employer for the fist time in months and months so she could pick a schedule to start working in about a week [...]
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Posted on March 26, 2008 by Turkish Prawn
I have said in the past that one of the things I was looking forward to the most was finding out what Short Stack’s passions would be. I know they change as we grow, but every kid seems to have one thing in particular that lights his or her fire. For me, it was airplanes, [...]
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